From: "Lennart Borgman" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: "Kevin Burton" <burton@spinn3r.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Possible to show tooltip at (point) ????
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 07:55:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e01d8a50812272255y5826ce7csfa09466b9c12d8d3@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <30c6373b0812272248y7c51447ax15bcea34d8cce132@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 7:48 AM, Kevin Burton <burton@spinn3r.com> wrote:
> A few years ago (has it REALLY been that long?) I was playing with
> x-show-tooltip so that I could display a tooltip at the given point.
> I was mostly interested in this so that I could build just in time code
> completion. This way one could have a function call:
> foo(
> And type something like C-enter to lookup the previous symbol and show
> method argument documentation in a tooltip.
> ..... anyway.
> I needed away to have x-show-tooltip generate under (point). Is this
> possible?
> If I remember I can manually position the tooltip if I know the on screen
> x/y pixel cartesian position of (point) but I don't think this was possible
> either.
> This was with an early version Emacs 21... Anyone know a solution to this?
> Have features been added to Emacs 22 to enable this?
> Kevin
There is a point-to-coord in ourcomments-util in nXhtml, but it does
not always work correctly.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-28 6:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-28 6:48 Possible to show tooltip at (point) ???? Kevin Burton
2008-12-28 6:55 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2008-12-28 9:05 ` Chong Yidong
2008-12-28 9:24 ` Kevin Burton
2008-12-28 9:53 ` Jason Rumney
2008-12-28 17:14 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-12-28 17:20 ` Kevin Burton
2008-12-28 17:31 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-12-28 17:38 ` Kevin Burton
2008-12-29 2:05 ` Kevin Burton
2008-12-29 2:14 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-12-29 2:33 ` Kevin Burton
2008-12-29 2:36 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-12-29 2:41 ` Kevin Burton
2008-12-29 3:31 ` Jason Rumney
2008-12-29 9:52 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-12-29 18:52 ` Kevin Burton
2008-12-28 17:07 ` Mathias Dahl
2008-12-28 17:14 ` Kevin Burton
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